“The Dawn of Grace” by Vijendra Rao

Repost from the old site. Nice article about India from the old site. Touches on many familiar issues and will be of interest to everyone on this site who is interested in India.

This is an excerpt of an article by an Indian colleague of mine, Vijendra Rao. Rao is a journalist working in the city of Mysore, a large city in the Indian state of Karnataka. Mysore is a famous and very old city in the far south of India that is known as the City of Palaces. Even before India became independent, Karnataka was hailed as the most progressive state in India.

It made huge strides in various fields – women’s education, electricity, drainage, arts, literature, etc., thanks to the imaginative rulers of those years.

Rao’s prose tends to be inflected with Indian English, a distinct dialect of English. The discourse style of Indian English is often markedly different, at best, from US English. This can make Indian English seem peculiar or awkward to many US English readers. Also, Rao’s prose is deeply rooted in Indian culture, which can make it difficult for non-Indians to understand the references in the prose.

I really liked this little essay, though, and I am hard to please as far as writing goes.

A few explanations are in order. A Mysorean is one from the city of Mysore in far southern India. A Brahmin is a member of the highest caste in India – the ruling class. This ruling class has ruled India for centuries. Aryan Brahmin invaders from the steppes of Asia poured into India 3,500 years ago and pushed the indigenous Indians (now known as South Indians) south.

The darker Indians of South India were originally spread over the entire continent. Brahmins tend to be lighter-skinned than other Indians, but it is interesting to note that despite great efforts to keep their line pure, Brahmins have been getting steadily darker through the centuries.

For those who are interested in the toxic subject of IQ and race, it is interesting to note that Brahmins also score higher on IQ tests than even European Whites. An exception to the typical rule of the lighter the skin, the higher the IQ, and vice-versa, can be found in Southern India, where the Brahmins are darker-skinned, and have higher IQ’s, than the lighter-skinned commoners of Southern India.

Brahmins, like Ashkenazi Jews, probably developed their high IQ’s through some sort of selective inbreeding. Not that either group deliberately engaged in a eugenics program to produce high IQ offspring, but that is the way it worked out.

In this essay, Rao also refers to Naxalites. Naxalites are armed Indian Maoists and this blog supports them totally.

Indian democracy has completely failed; the system has killed an average of almost 2 million people every year just since independence, for a total of 100 million dead in the period (documentation of that astounding figure is here, via Chomsky).

Starvation and malnutrition rates are the same in India, year in and year out, as they were in North Korea at the height of its famine in the 1990′s. Note that the capitalist media turned somersaults to report the North Korean famine as an “evils of Communism” meme, while ignoring, for decades, the exact same situation in capitalist India.

The Indian caste system is a horrible system of cruel ingrained racism that seeps into every pore of Indian society. The proponents of caste have even injected caste into Hinduism, but Hinduism existed before the caste system brought by Aryan invaders, and it can be argued that caste is a foreign and unnecessary accretion to Hinduism. The marriage of Hinduism to caste makes it caste more difficult to uproot.

Combine the above with a royal family that, as usual, claimed to rule in the name of Gods, or be reincarnations of Gods (in this case Hindu Gods) and you have a society shot through with feudalism through and through.

Indian democracy has totally failed to eradicate caste and is probably incapable of doing so. Unfortunately, such a deeply ingrained reactionary feudal system can only be destroyed through total revolution.

Making matters worse is the systematic oppression of women. I conducted some research on women’s rights around the world. The disastrous treatment of women in Hindu Nepal and India combines with the equally disastrous treatment of women in Muslim India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, to make South Asia the most backward place on Earth for women.

Sexism, more than being tied to religion in this part of the world, is actually a regionalism that has grafted itself onto the major religions in the area.

An unbelievable 350 million Indians are still illiterate. You would think that any decent independent India would have taught them to read by now.

The numbers of young children permanently dropped out school are in the tens of millions. Many of these kids, as young as 9 or 10, are working up to 18 hours a day on jobs, suffering under Medieval working conditions. Many of them are virtual slaves.

India has one of the worst child labor problems in the world, and Indian democracy has totally failed to deal with this Dark Ages institution. The whole Indian system, as in many developing capitalist societies, is corrupt to the core. The rule of law is a joke and the courts are sloth-like and barely function.

Armed gangs working for the higher castes run amok across society. Monetary disputes are often handled by hiring Mafioso-type thugs to go out and convince reluctant creditors. Even major Indian banks hire these freelance criminals. Construction of buildings and roads is often shoddy, leading to the inevitable injuries and deaths.

It is estimated that there are – get this – over 200 million homeless Indians who are actually living on the sidewalks of the big cities. You will step over them as you walk in the big cities. Some of the people you step over will no longer be alive – they died the previous night.

If the rich and big corporations in India want some land, they just up and take it. They drive bulldozers to a village, clear out the people, and wipe the settlement off the face of the Earth. Then they steal the land, which may have been communal land for centuries. It’s all legal with a corrupt judge’s signature, or if it not, there is no recourse anyway.

If you anger a rich or upper caste person, they will often threaten you with their private armies. All of this reminds one of various Third World capitalist terror states that US imperialism is so enamored of, where the armies of the rich keep the aristocracy in power by sheer terror, never mind voting, never mind “democracy”.

The state of Bihar is an example of the catastrophe of Indian democracy. The per capita income is an unbelievable $94 per year. Only six nations, all Fourth World failed capitalist states in Africa, have worse development indexes than Bihar. Over half of all adults are illiterate, and only 1/3 of women can read and write.

Bihar has gone from the least corrupt to the most corrupt state in India since independence. Out of control coal mining has devastated huge tracts of forest and farmland.

The tentacles of crime and caste tangle themselves into the morass of Bihari politics to the point where Bihari politics can be said to be castecized and criminalized. For hundreds of years, caste and crime went together in Bihar like bacon and eggs. The entire edifice of Bihari politics, along with most other Bihari institutions, have been taken over by the caste-crime networks, to the point where they now control the state.

Violent crime, as in so many Third World capitalist states, is out of control. Bihar is starting to look like Iraq, albeit on a much-reduced scale. The kidnapping industry has exploded. While kidnapping has been common in smaller towns in Bihar for decades, the fact is that now, on any given day, a wealthy Bihari professional can be nabbed by kidnappers.

Upper-caste gangs called Senas roam the countryside at will, looting property, extorting money and fighting wars with other Sena gangs. The Senas are best seen as analogues to the death squads run by the oligarchs in various Death Squad Democracies like El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Philippines and Nepal.

This is basically the age-old means of staying in power that aristocrats have always used – terror. “Democracy”, electoral fraud and “demonstration elections” as a means of maintaining aristocratic power are an invention of the new field of Public Relations a century ago as maintaining aristocratic rule through terror became less tenable in parts of the world.

A criminal Mafia, largely an upper caste nexus of landlords, politicians, government administrators, contractors and sectors of the business community, holds sway over much of the countryside.

The Bihari Mafia differs from, say, the Italian Mafia in that many of the Bihari mobsters actually hold seats in the Indian Parliament. The Mafia attacks the peasants, any landlord who does not pay their protection money, and anyone else who gets in their way. An overview of the Indian Mafia is here.

A criminal oligarch named Laloo Prasad Yadav has run Bihar into the ground for the past 15 years. Yadav has done absolutely nothing while kidnappers, Sena gangs, and the Mafia wreak havoc across the state. The cynical conclusion is that Yadav was allied with the Mafioso, Senas and kidnapper gangs.

Bihar is now seen as the “Basket Case of India”. Seminars are held across India about the “Bihari problem”. Thus far, these seminars have not accomplished anything.

This is the capitalist success story called India that the MSM swoons over!

What the depressing picture above adds up to is a society that simply does not function for the vast majority of its citizens.

For all of the reasons, this blog supports the armed Indian Maoists, or Naxalites, a movement that is exploding across Eastern India, especially in Bihar, West Bengal, Chattisargh, Orissa, Andra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkand, in some of India’s most backwards and feudal areas.

Some of the groups this blog supports are the Maoist Communist Center (MCC), Communist Party India – Marxist-Leninist (Janashakti) or CPI-ML, the People’s War Group (formerly made up of such groups as CPI-ML (Party Unity), the armed factions of CPI-ML (Liberation), the People’s Guerrilla Army and the CPI-Maoist. See the People’s March link on this site for more on the armed Maoists of India.

The Naxalites are a particularly large and growing problem in Bihar, and apparently they are networking extensively with the huge Nepalese Maoist guerrilla movement, which this blog also supports.

The author and I had some discussions about Brahmins and Maoists. Here are some of his interesting comments on the matter.

He touches on the relationship between Maoists and Brahmins (Not necessarily as simple as you think!) and show how one can manage to be both, to show that Brahmins have been and continue to be progressive, and to note that India is now dealing with reverse discrimination, the common lot of many societies that undertake a systematic, government-decreed, anti-racist initiative:

Basava, the great eighth century reformer from Karnataka, was a Brahmin, too. There are many others. I think only a Brahmin can turn into a Maoist. I don’t know how much you are aware that Brahmins are a much-maligned lot. Well, Brahmins cannot be condoned for what they did, but I know of more Brahmins who are reform-minded and who don’t discriminate. Unfortunately, reverse discrimination has started and is rampant now. It is there everywhere. The reason that I quit my job with one newspaper was because I had become a Jew in my office.

The Dawn of Grace

The face may well be not only the index of the mind but of the soul itself. Just as the turbulence in the mind gets manifested in the show-window of the human figure, that is face, tranquility gets similarly reflected. Man, even the best of actors, cannot for any great length of time bury his feelings and mask his emotions behind the visage. What a man looks is therefore the product of what his inner self is.

Isn’t that why Abraham Lincoln said that if a man does not attain grace by the time he is forty, well, he probably has not led a life of fulfillment.

Some faces have struck me instantly and like lightning. These faces have readily and eloquently advertised for the soul underneath. They are not bound by space, religion, nationality, ideology, profession or avocation. They constitute a motley group.

Let me name them: Bhandarakeri Swami, a religious leader whom I have seen only once as a schoolboy and only for a few fleeting moments and that too from a long range. There was radiance in his face. The halo around him was as bright as the sun. I have not forgotten how he looked a full quarter of a century ago.

It was as if the radiation emitted from his soldering-rod-like countenance etched his persona on the metal sheet of my mind. It has permanently remained there. I was to learn later that the seer was indeed pious and godly.

Not to pick out chronologically, but randomly, Gaddar, the revolutionary ballad singer, has left as deep an impression on me. At his only public performance I have attended he was a man possessed. Singing ballads and dancing to their tunes, he held the audience in a thrall.

I could not help complimenting his spellbinding performance in the only manner that I could have done: I hugged his sweat-soaked body tight. I was speechless. Sometime earlier, it was Arundhati Nag, the famous theatre artiste and the widow of Shankar Nag, the brilliant director-actor and winner of national award.

She had just recovered from the shock of losing her husband in a car crash and recuperated from the injuries she herself had suffered in the mishap.

Oh! It was amazing. She was glowing like a million suns and I could not stare straight into her eyes, just as one cannot look into the burning sun for more than a moment or two, although she was at a distance, on the dais at a function.

Then it was, of all persons, Arjunan, the younger brother of Veerappan, the most savage of all criminals of our time. There was an unmistakable spark in his eyes. He was no less a criminal than his more notorious and bloodthirsty brother, but the glint had obscured his dark deeds.

How can I not include the divinity-personified M.S. Subbulakshmi in this list?

One might be perplexed, even intrigued, at the odd bunch of names I have mentioned. They are not my choice; the very magnetism of their personalities selected them for me and attracted them to my soul. I have tried to find a convincing, if rational, explanation for this queer combination.

There is a religious leader (I myself am not slightly religious, indeed I am irreligious); there is a singer of ballads advocating violence to overturn the state (although I am not a Leftist, leave alone being an Ultra-Leftist); there is a widowed actress; and then there is a criminal who is no more, but his picture in my mind is not; there is an angelic musician.

I must tell you, I have succeeded in piecing together the essential human beings in these persons.

What is fundamental to them is the steadfast commitment to their chosen cause, be it the revolutionary Gaddar or the ferocious schemer-killer Arjunan. The two are at the two extreme ends of where a human being can be driven to by his own emotion. One was noble, the other was most ignoble.

Compassion, at least empathy, is at the root of one man’s mission, while the other committed the most heinous of crimes and died as a sacrificial animal. The grace on the beatific face of Gaddar is inescapable for one who has led a selfless life. What gave Arjunan the spark in his otherwise cold eyes was also the result of his love, his love of freedom.

He looked more like Socrates before the Greek philosopher laid down his life. He looked determined. He looked as if he knew he had done no wrong out of his own volition. Once he had paid the wages of his sin, in the form of a murder, he wanted to reform. But the system did not allow him. He was forced to get back to Veerappan.

He thought he would be safer and his life more secure with his brother, whom he had deserted long before. The expression he had was one of disdain against a society that did not allow him freedom. The freedom to lead a respectable life. His eyes emitted fire. The fire, if had spread, enough to engulf the system.

Flame was also found in the eyes of Gaddar, just as aura oozed out of that Goddess of Music called Subbulakshmi. He has striven to bring about equality. He may be an advocate of violence, but it is not violence for its own sake. It is violence for the sake of uprooting cruelty that has for centuries found expression amid us in the form of inhuman discrimination of a whole segment of society.

The love for the have-nots, who form a sizable segment of the milieu he emerges from, rivals his hatred of the discriminators who are found in a minority. However, it is not a question of majoritism versus minoritism for him. His mission is to secure a just society by overthrowing the existing unjust order.

Where does Arundhati Nag fit into the scheme of things of this article? What was (perhaps, it still is) the source of her radiance? Having lost her husband, she was exuding grief when I saw her. Her face depicted a confluence of lost love and a suffusion of sorrow.

More importantly, her dignity – quiet dignity that many women are capable of under similar circumstances (unlike the distinct absence of it in many men on being rendered widowers) – that almost made her an effervescent statue.

The face, washed with torrents of tears, had the aura of a ripened mango after the first monsoon showers. If Arjunan appeared to me to be “the statue of liberty”, Arundhati symbolized the greatest monument of love. I am trying not to glorify the criminality of the former or the widowhood of the actress.

All these people I have met or seen only once. But the effect upon encountering them all has been the same. They have held out a strong appeal. And with their eyes and eyes alone.

Except perhaps Arundhati, all the others were above forty years of age when I saw them. And all of them had qualified Lincoln’s test. What is so magical about the age forty? Why did he set that benchmark? Curiously, don’t they say, “Life begins at forty?”

Youth fades away by the time one is forty. In most cases one would have by then satiated the most basic of one’s desires and fulfilled one’s creature comforts. The kind of grace Lincoln talks of accrues the same way a hungry man exudes a sense of gratification after a wholesome meal.

Life would have assumed a definite direction, acquired a great deal of purposefulness. Desires of the basic variety would have either been taken care of or sublimated. It is time for grace to dawn on the human face or even don it.

Just when I am all set to send these essays to the printer comes the news of death of Saketh, the Naxal leader from Mysore gunned down in (what we are told) an encounter. I never met this man, but his photograph that I saw in the press on his death guarantees me that his would have been the most impressive face in my list of faces if only had I got to see him.

His face is singularly remarkable for the reason that his heart, full of goodness, has no more place for it that it gently overflows from his face. That he is shy about it if not simply unaware of it is also evident in his delicately sculpted visage. It is not easy to find faces that bear out intelligence and kindness in equal measure. Saketh’s does.

I know I am not going overboard about my adulation for a man that I never met. I am only being led by my hunch that Saketh must have attempted to reform the Naxals. (I would remain firm in this belief even if I hadn’t read all those glowing obituaries that the Kannada press honoured him with or hadn’t heard the rich encomiums a journalist-colleague posthumously spared him).

There is no way, I am inclined to believe, that he would have raised his little finger against anybody. On the contrary, if Saketh did kill in fulfillment of the Mao credo, he should have looked a killer. Like the cops, maybe.

(Incidentally, Saketh is the name of God Rama. Some coincidence that Saketh spent the prime of his youth in the wild. Yes, with his young wife. It was voluntary privation for him. Talk of Rama, Krishna can’t be far behind, though in terms of time, he was. My mind tosses up an intriguing question: Krishna advocated war, righteous war.

Since I have sung the praise of the Gita elsewhere in this book, would terror unleashed by the Naxals acceptable to me? No, just not. Violence, neither by the Naxal nor by the State, can ever be condoned. Unfortunately, State terror is vastly unfettered. Gandhi’s guiding spirit was the Gita, but he was the apostle of peace and non-violence).

This colleague, who said he shed tears for two whole days for this unlikely Naxal, tells me that Saketh was only the second Brahmin after Basava through whom compassion chose to manifest itself. That, I would say, succinctly sums up all that Saketh stood for. I must however say that, if my borrowed understanding of Saketh is right, he lived the way a Brahmin ought to live.

A life characterized by simple living, high thinking, selflessness and self-abnegation. A report says that he was Spartan in his habits and had only one pair of clothes (the Vedas ordain that the Brahmin must be found only in rags and have no flab). If only more of today’s Brahmins could emulate Saketh, Naxalism would be outdated within no time.

Saketh, in fact, gives me a complex when I glare at him. Despite being born in the same year what segregates the two of us, for instance, is grace. He has so much of it.

The quality that leaves me with the wish that I should have had an encounter with him. Especially as a Mysorean. More so as a journalist. Only after his death did I come to know that there were quite a few known to me, including his relatives, that had seen Saketh from close quarters.

Finally, why is it that babies and the aged look alike and appealing? It is all right that they both suffer from the same kind of disabilities and infirmities and they both find themselves helpless and utterly dependent. More importantly, they are free from desires.

They are either unaware of them or have fulfilled them. It is this freedom from desire (like the Buddha’s or Vivekananada’s) which imparts them grace and amiability. You know they won’t use you, and they are therefore approachable.

The same kind of tranquil look is to be found on those who have had a deep and undisturbed sleep. To be graceful is to be free from selfish desires. If you have not dreamt (what are dreams but manifestation of unfulfilled desires), you have acquired grace, however momentarily. The grace wears out as one becomes fully awake, as the state of being awake brings back desires to the fore.

Excerpted from Rao’s collection of essays, Run of the Mind. The book is available for purchase in both paper and e-book versions here. Dr. Ramash N. Rao, professor and Department Chair of the Department of Communication Studies and Theater of Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, has called Rao “the new voice of India”.

Hindutva and the “Unfinished Partition”

Aakash is an interesting Indian Hindu living in the US who rejects much Indian Hindu culture as insipid, toxic and diseased, yet still embraces a Hindu identity. He also admits that caste is crap and it needs to go. Surely a casteless Hinduism could be formulated since all religions are human creations.

If religions are human creations, than Hinduism was created by man. If so, it could be constantly molded by men too.

Many religions have been through Reformations. The horrors of Early Christianity are long gone and probably never to return. Not long ago, non-Catholics were told to convert or die. That’s not happening anywhere no, and there are no Inquisitions on the horizon either. Lands are no longer conquered by Christendom, nor are heathens put to the sword. Christian heathens are not burned at the stake. Religious authorities are no longer in charge of Christian states via the throne or otherwise. In all of Christendom, separation of church and state is nearly complete. No Christian justifies slavery anymore or owns slaves.

If Christianity can go through a Reformation, Hinduism surely can too since it is generally less divinely inspired than Christianity.

Aakash:

Robert

While the attempt to finish partition is indeed a primary driving force for the Hindutvas, the bigger picture needs to be understood here.

Ask yourself the question: was the partition of India on religious basis fair or Justified? If anybody believes that it was, it was the most unfortunate event in the history of Hindus. The fact that by force (as in west Pakistan) or genocide (east Pakistan), Hindus have been eliminated in Pakistan and Bangladesh while Muslims still to this day have a strong presence in India has to hurt even the most rational of Hindus.

Ironically, this is where the Hindutvadis are barking up the wrong tree. Instead of focusing on the objective to expose the “nations” Pakistan and Bangladesh and showing solidarity with whatever number of Hindus that remain there, their hatred extends to all Muslims in general including Arabs, Turks, Persians etc who have nothing to do with present day India.

Hindutva movement is at best a display of high entropy randomness swinging from hating Muslims in general extending all the way to couples holding hands (most of them being Hindus themselves). There is no identity and will never be one simply because it has zero left wing element to it. Majority of poor in India are Hindus themselves and the Hindu right wing does nothing for them.

If, on the other hand, you believe (like I do) that the partition of India, if at all, should have been based on a more logical basis such as language/region, I urge you to start writing articles calling for the elimination of the rogue state of Pakistan and the shitty country that is Bangladesh.

I can understand Hindutva rage and where it is coming from. But the way they go about their business lacks reason and subtlety to say the least. This is in line with other South Asian crazies like Muslims.

Aakash is absolutely correct. The partition in a sense was a crime. Hindus were more or less ethnically cleansed in one way or another from both Pakistan and Bangladesh. In Pakistan, they were mostly just made to disappear via emigration and conversion to Islam (some of the conversion was pretty much forcible). In Bangladesh, Pakistani Muslims and their often Islamist collaborators massacred 3 million people, maybe 80% if whom were Hindus. It was truly a genocide. There are about 13% Hindus left in Bangladesh, and they are subject to regular serious persecution whereby their neighborhoods are burned to the ground and some of them are killed. It’s not quite Gujarat, but it’s nearly Kristallnacht.

Blaming Bangladeshi Muslims seems wrong as Bangladeshi society is horribly divided on this question. The more secular minded folks associated with a Congress-like party are outraged at the genocide, perhaps because a lot of Muslims were also killed. The more Islamist-minded mostly think the genocide was all well and good. An Islamist was recently put on trial for war crimes committed during the war, and this ignited passions in Bangladeshi society that have left a number of folks dead amid serious riots. Indian Hindus need to realize that a large section of Bangladeshi society thinks the genocide of 1971 was a horrific crime.

But on the surface, it does look unfair. Bangladesh and Pakistan were nearly cleansed of Hindus, yet there remains many Muslims in India. However, in the case of India and Bangladesh, the comparison is not a good one. India is 13% Muslim, and Bangladesh is 13% Hindu, so the proportions are the same, though the Hindus of Bangladesh look to be on the decline, and Muslims in India are set to rise.

One problem is that Islam always offers an out to the persecuted infidels, which does make Islam better than most forms of racism. In most racism, there really is no way out. In Nazi Germany, even converting to Christianity was enough to save a Jew as the persecution was racially inspired. One can hardly change one’s race at any rate.

Persecuted infidels in Muslim nations can always convert to Islam, and then the persecution will generally grind to a halt. This option is often heavily encouraged in Muslim nations as infidels are often under varying degrees of pressure to convert. Infidel females in particular are often kidnapped by Muslim men, raped and forced to convert. Intermarriage is another way as a Muslim man can marry an infidel woman and the children will all be raised Muslim, hence the infidel woman’s offspring are lost to the infidels. Female Muslims, the breed stock of Islam, are forbidden to marry out or if they do, the infidel man just convert. Islam gets the intermarried either way.

Muslims, no matter how they intermarry, end up having their offspring raised as Muslims. This is the sort of religion that is nearly programmed to multiply like a bacterium, a weed or an amphibian. In most societies, the Muslim population will tend to rise as the infidel population will tend to decrease. This simply another form of Islamic conquest, this one being the “jihad of the womb.”

I do not believe that Bangladesh or Pakistan should be broken up, at least not now. Pakistan actually needs breaking, but not until India breaks too. Neither one will split without or before the other, so neither will break up. If India breaks up, they lose to Pakistan. If Pakistan breaks up, they lose to India. Both nations are paranoid of the other, China and the US and they fear assimilation by outside powers.

Islam as a Hegemonic and Expansionist Religion

Pepperoncini writes:

There are plenty of cultures who are content with not trying to dominate the world and don’t keep pushing for a takeover when they go abroad. I sure as heck don’t notice: Polynesians, Copts, Greek Orthodox, Saivites, Buddhists, Shintoists, Tibetans etc…imposing themselves in the same manner as Islam. As shitty/wicked as Vedic Hinduism is, it pretty much limited itself to the SubCon. Buddhist Nationalists run pogroms in Burma and Sri Lanka but they don’t try to colonize other regions of the world.

While the West went on a world domination binge and still does run the world, they have changed significantly. They opened their countries to all religions and cultures. What Islamic country accepts non-Muslim immigration in any meaningful capacity and doesn’t keep its minorities in ‘their place’?

I absolutely do not believe that America & Canada would tolerate such large numbers of foreign cultures if they were Muslim run.

Your argument tries to deflect criticism of Islam’s hegemonic behavior by bringing up past actions of others. This is like Israeli apologists stating that so and so country has a worse human rights record so people shouldn’t focus on Israel. Islam has been expansionist for well over a millenia and is still going at it. Is there Hellenization in the present day?

Pepperoncini is a South Indian who is very much opposed to Vedic Hinduism as a North Indian supremacist imperialist culture imposed on the South. He also despises the caste system in the finest tradition of Ambedkar.

His comments about Islam are spot on.

While the West went on a world domination binge and still does run the world, they have changed significantly. They opened their countries to all religions and cultures. What Islamic country accepts non-Muslim immigration in any meaningful capacity and doesn’t keep its minorities in ‘their place’?

Indeed! The Muslims and the rest of the 3rd World White haters demand that all White countries must open their borders to be flooded by the non-Whites of this world. This is because Whites have created great countries that these non-Whites want to move to to reap the benefits because they destroyed their own non-White countries through their incompetence, lousy cultures or some other remediable failure.

The Muslims in particular are obnoxious and hypocritical about this. The infidel West must open its doors to be flooded by millions of alien, often hostile and frequently ill-behaved Muslims who, if they obtain enough numbers, will threaten the very nature of the West by Islamicizing it. Yet all Muslim countries must remain Muslim. Muslims must be treated wonderfully in the West by infidels, but Muslims are free to treat their non-Muslim minorities like crap, which as a general rule, they do.

The West must make its Muslims citizens, but Muslims have a right to import generations of infidel bonded labor who have no hope of ever obtaining citizenship, lest the Islamic nature of the society be challenged. Muslims have a right to limit proselytization and the building of infidel houses of worship in Muslim lands, but the infidels must not put limits on the building of mosques in infidel lands or Muslim conversion efforts of infidels in infidel lands. The blatant hypocrisy of Muslims is stunning and audacious.

I absolutely do not believe that America & Canada would tolerate such large numbers of foreign cultures if they were Muslim run.

Of course they would not! Yet no matter how much the West bends over backwards to accommodate outrageously hypocritical and imperialist-minded and conquest-oriented Muslims in the West, we are endlessly bashed as racists for our efforts at decency because we are never doing enough. You can’t win with this people.

Your argument tries to deflect criticism of Islam’s hegemonic behavior by bringing up past actions of others. This is like Israeli apologists stating that so and so country has a worse human rights record so people shouldn’t focus on Israel. Islam has been expansionist for well over a millenia and is still going at it. Is there Hellenization in the present day?

“Yeah but other people do it too,” is always a bad argument by miscreants, criminals and other bad actors. If you are accused of theft and you go before the judge and tell him that other people steal too or the judge’s grandfather was a thief and therefore you should be let go, what is he going to tell you?

The Israelis are masters of this crap. “But you used to be evil too!” the Jews wail endlessly. Great argument Jews! So the whole world gets to act evil forever because some people acted bad in the past and we can’t criticize present day evildoers when our ancestors were wicked too? Way to march forward into progress!

Moronicans are Complete Idiots

Just how stupid are Americans?

Real stupid.

Consider exactly how idiotic your average Moronican is. Now consider that they may well have graduated from a public high school. What precisely did they learn in those 12 years of school anyway? Anything at all? Nothing? If people graduating from 12 grades of education without knowing their ass from a hole in the ground, why did we even bother spending the money to educate them in the first place?

It’s kind of nice to meet a college graduate, but some of them are stupid too. A friend of mine had a BA from Cal State Long Beach. A BA in what, I have no idea. In 1988, I asked him who he was voting for, and he said, “Reagan?” I told him Reagan wasn’t running (it was Dukakis versus Bush), and he was surprised. The Presidential election had been going for a long time, Ray Gun had been out of office for months, and this fool didn’t have the foggiest idea. I met a Mexican-American college graduate (criminology degree) who got mad at me when I told him that Hispanics were a mixture of White and Indian. He said that wasn’t true. In fact, they were pure Indian. Or something. Or whatever.

I had a Black girlfriend once. She had a BA, but it was in Homemaking. You can get a BA in that? She was taking some courses at a junior college, and she was so dumb that I had to write her papers for her. She wouldn’t understand my papers, and she would get mad at me and rip up the papers.

Half the time I start a conversation with someone and it quickly ends. They don’t have the foggiest idea what I am talking about. That does not compute! I start to explain, and they get annoyed or their eyes glaze over. “Moron alert!” Screams my brain.

The USA Is a Shithole

And it’s not just the government that sucks. That is a conceit. If the government sucks, it’s usually because you suck. Usually but not always. People get the governments they deserve. In many cases, governments simply reflect the political culture of the people. This is especially true in the case of representative democracies. If the US government is a rightwing nightmare, it’s because the US people made it that way. The government is rightwing because the people are rightwing. We could throw these idiots out anytime we want to and replace them with others, but we don’t because we have the government we like.

People get on my case for blasting other nations or even talking smack about some non-White races or ethnic groups. But the truth is that I am an America-hater. Probably one of the worst America-haters out there. And I have been for a very long time. I have been an America-hater possibly since I was 23 years old or so, if not sooner. It took me a while to realize how much this place blows.

Thing is that I hate most other countries too, so I probably would not be happy anywhere. I hate most governments and I hate most societies. I also hate most cultures. People’s political cultures pretty much suck everywhere. When they don’t suck, the government sucks.

This is pretty common on the Left. America is an insanely rightwing country, one of the most rightwing political cultures on Earth, or possibly the most rightwing political culture on Earth. What’s a Leftist to like? You’re living in a rightwing country. This is supposed to make you happy or what? US politics sucks, but the politics of Americans sucks. US political culture sucks. How long has it sucked? Forever, pretty much, but it’s been getting worse for decades now.

Most American people are pretty much good and decent people just like people most anywhere. As long as you don’t ask them about their politics, you can get along great with them.

I talk to people all over the world, especially in the 3rd World. Most of them hate their countries. They tell me that their country blows. And why not? The 3rd World blows, come on. 1/3 of the world wants to come to the US. That’s because the 3rd World blows so much that they want to come here. They don’t want to come here for the great political culture, they want to come here for the money. It’s all about the money. If you study human history, people were always trying to move from a lousy place to a better place. That’s the history of most human migrations and invasions in a nutshell.

There are some other things I despise about US culture. It’s unbelievably shallow and materialistic. All everyone cares about is money. Everyone is judged based on how much money they make or how good of a job you have. It’s not so bad for women, but it’s a nightmare for men, trust me.

As a man, you end up in an arms race with other men in search of how can make the most money. I played this game for a while, and then I gave it up pretty quickly. It was obviously a rat race road to nowhere. At one time, I was making some pretty good money. I told some guys about it, and they immediately stiffened up and told me I wasn’t making crap, and they were making more than I was. That made me angry at them and I wanted to beat them. I spent most of my time frustrated and angry at guys who made more than I did and trying to beat them. I finally realized that even when I started making some more money, I would just run into a bunch of idiots who were making even more money than I was.

And so the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses goes on forever. You’re always angry and frustrated and jumpy, trying to make more money. You always feel like a loser and a failure. You are jealous and envious of the guys who make more and you are out to beat them. It occurred to me that obviously there is no end to this insanity.

At the same time, when I thought I was making good money, every woman I dated told me what a loser I was because I wasn’t making enough money. This was especially true when they made more than I did. “Bob! You’ve got to start making more money!” At this time, I was working two or three different jobs.

That relationship would end, and I would meet married matchmakers. They would tell me that they had lots of single friends who they wanted to fix me up with but I needed to make a minimum of $X per year. It turned out that I was not making $X per year, so I had to turn her down. I figured out that most women are nothing but whores since all they want is money. My opinion of women plunged precipitously.

In America, a person’s moral worth is judged by how much money they make. If I make more money than you, I am a better human being than you, and you are nothing but a subhuman worm, haha. If you make money than I do, you are superior to me and I am a failure and a loser. That’s one Hell of a garbage way of judging the moral worth of human beings!

At that point, I became a total society dropout who wants nothing to do with society anymore. I’m anti-society. I am sitting here giving a gigantic middle finger to society. I want nothing to do with it anymore.

I would say that even though America blows for sure, most places in the world are way worse.

White Trash and Ghetto Subcultural Negotiating Styles in Blacks and Whites

Jasmine writes:

How many whites are “white trash?” I am not ghetto and my IQ tested at 151. How come if a black person smokes pot and drinks that means they’re “ghetto” when white people do that all of the time without any label?

And I saw someone talking about black people rallying around MJ? And? Are you blind to the fact that a great deal of his die-hard fans are also white?

And look at how many NON-blacks have rallied around Zimmerman who, racist or not, is a murderer and behaves like a sociopath without a shred of remorse for killing an innocent teenager.

People see things through tunnel vision and I’m sick of it.

And what are you referring to when you say that that man is a “real black”? What is his accent?? What is a “black” accent??….

Were you joking when you said that Heil Hizzle Mein Nizzle’s comment was astute??? You can’t be serious. You were joking, right? I’m honestly asking. I feel like I’m reading a joke blog…..

First of all I would like to congratulate this young Black lady for her 151 IQ. There are very few Whites with IQ’s that high and much fewer Blacks. I hope she can use it to go far in life. If more Blacks had 151 IQ’s, we wouldn’t have nearly so many problems with them.

This is certainly not a joke blog, but it is extremely non-PC or even anti-PC.

Certainly quite a few Whites are “White trashy” to one degree or another. Some of my White friends are even White trash to one degree or another, and I don’t mind that at all. In fact, in this part of California, many of the Whites are “White trash.” I have a certain amount of respect for White trashers, and I would much rather live around them than live around ghetto Blacks. White trash is really just a White uncivilized mode similar to Ghetto Black. Many White people negotiate and travel in between White Trash and Civilized modes the same way that many Blacks negotiate Ghetto and Civilized cultures.

Unfortunately, around here, we refer to a person who has a certain amount of “ghetto” in them as a “real Black.” It’s not exactly a compliment, but it’s not calling them a ghetto nigger either. A lot of these people are the “floaters.” For instance a friend came over here to help me move some stuff. While he was here, that retired schoolteacher lady rang the bell and stopped by. I had told me friend about her and he met her for the first time. After she left, I said that’s the woman I have been telling you about. She’s not exactly ghetto, but you know? Yeah, he said, I know. She’s not ghetto, but she’s definitely a real Black.

A Black person deeply immersed in Black culture, we call, “a real Black.” The more civilized ones, we call them, “White Blacks,” as a joke. My friend says, “Yeah, but they’re not even Black. Those are ‘white Blacks.’” So in the crowd I run with, White = civilized, and Black = ghetto and uncivilized. Of course a Black person can be as “White” as any White person, depending on how they act, but then we do tend to call them “White Blacks.”

In certain surroundings, some of my friends use the word “nigger.” I can use it too around them, and I do sometimes. Almost always the word “nigger” refers to an uncivilized or ghetto type Black. It’s seen as uncool, taboo or even racist to call one of the “White Blacks” a nigger. In my circle, we call that racist. There are also many folks in my circle with whom I can’t use the word nigger, and that’s ok.

My handyman has a very deep Southern, “Black” accent. There is no reason on Earth for him to speak that way. The man was born and raised in Fresno, California. We call Blacks outside the South who speak with deep “Black accents” to be “real Blacks,” at best!

Zimmerman is my hero! He is my main man! I don’t see why he should have any remorse for killing that thug bitch. He did the whole world a favor by killing Trayvon. It was a “public service killing.” One less ghetto Black in this world! Praise the Lord!

Of course I do not think that a Black person who drinks and smokes pot is automatically “ghetto.” Actually they could do even worse drugs than that and still be non ghetto, but it’s not that common. Unfortunately, most Black drug users are at least somewhat “ghetto” types. In many cases, they are the “floaters” who I described in my piece, who navigate between Civilized and Ghetto modes. Most of the “White Blacks” want so hard to be non-ghetto that they often are very straight laced, don’t drink a lot and often don’t smoke pot either because they associate all that with the ghetto culture they are trying to escape from.

Hizzle von Nizzle’s comment was very astute, and was not particularly racist at all. It was certainly in line with Liberal Race Realism, which is partly what this blog is all about.

It’s not necessarily ghetto to rally around Michael Jackson. A lot of non-ghetto Blacks rallied around him. Here is Hizzle von Nizzle’s excellent comment:

Blacks, in addition to being heavily conformist and consumerist (i.e. blowing all their disposable income in a kind of arms race over sneakers or spinning rims) are also deeply oppositional. If they see that whites generally don’t like a black person (i.e. OJ Simpson in the early 90s, or Michael Jackson in the 00′s) they will rally around that black person. Similarly, a black or blacks who perceive that the white people in their environment are made uncomfortable or angry by “ghetto” behavior will increase or exaggerate their ghetto behavior in order to rankle the whites.

Also, insecure blacks (either insecure in their melanin density or masculinity) will place a premium on their ability to navigate black street culture (think Toure or Michael Eric Dyson on MSNBC). Sharpton and Jesse don’t have to act. They are from the sewer.

I certainly agree with this comment in part if not in whole.

Blacks are very oppositional in the US.

I am not necessarily sure that Blacks always escalate their ghetto behavior thing when it seems like Whites do not like it. In fact, they may well turn it off.

I used to teach school in Compton. There was a Black secretary there at one of the schools I was working at. She was kind of nice looking, and that was before I had given up on Black women. I walked into the office, and she and the other Black women in the office were speaking the thickest, most horrific Ebonics you have ever heard. It disgusted me, as to me it sounds “sloppy” and “uncivilized.”

A lot of these Black ladies were pretty civilized types who dressed and behaved themselves at their office secretarial jobs. Blacks who work in schools have to act good. The ones who act bad simply do not work in the schools. Even at the worst ghetto schools, most of the Blacks who actually work there are more or less pretty good people.

Anyway, I walked in at the end of the day, and I was checking out. This one Black woman liked me. She had the most insanely massive tits you have ever seen and she was rather pretty. She immediately and completely turned off the Ebonics crap 100% and went into “civilized White person” mode all because of me. She was also acting really flirty. All of the other Black ladies in the office were like, “Whoa! She likes him. Get him, girl!”

I can think of countless other cases when Blacks have modified of shut down their ghetto behaviors just to deal with me or other Whites. It happens all the time. Do they sometimes turn it on too? It is hard to say. Maybe if they think you are hostile to them, but I usually try to act really friendly around most Blacks, even ghetto types.

I also do not agree that Sharpton and Jackson are from the sewer. I don’t mind either of them. They are more idiotic than anything else, and I consider both men to be quite civilized.

Islam Is Not Progressive

Islamic devolution, evolution in reverse.

Look at how far backwards Afghanistan has gone. This is your society on Islamism. Afghanistan was a Muslim country in 1972 also, but look how different it was. There are many ways to be a Muslim country. Afghanistan was just as much of a Muslim country in 1972 as it is this year. The only thing that has changed is the fundamentalist nature of society.

It is amazing that liberals and the Left think that Islam and Islamism is the greatest thing since sliced bread.Why? Islam and Islamism is against everything the Left is for. If the Western Left is against anything, it must be against Islam and Islamism. It’s hard to imagine a form of Islam that won’t move Western societies backwards, and it’s hard to imagine a form of Islamism that won’t throw a Muslim country into reverse.

Sure, Hinduism blows, but so does Islam. Who says that Hinduism blows worse than Islam? It’s a tough call! Which religious cancer treats women worse, Islam or Hinduism? Once again, close call! Both of these religions are obscurantist forms of primitivism instead to move society backwards, not forwards.

According to the Left, history, like clocks, is supposed to move forwards. And I believe that is the general tendency of history. Not exactly an iron law, but humans have a tendency to move from conditions of less progress to conditions of more progress. And this in a nutshell, is the Left Hegelian notion of history.

So it is in this sense that Fukushima’s theory was a conceit. Fukushima wrote that history was over, that is, we are stuck with capitalist economics, preferably of the neoliberal form, despite the fact that it is a backwards, primitive, inefficient, irrational and profoundly immoral system. The Left notion of history holds that humans have a natural tendency to move from more backwards, primitive, irrational and immoral systems towards systems that are more progressive, advanced, rational and moral.

Humans have not changed one bit. The human race has not decided to become reactionaries overnight. We continue to move towards progress on many fronts. There is no reason to think that justice and fairness minded humans will settle for the insanity and deeply unfair system of neoliberal capitalism. Nothing changed suddenly in 1990. Clocks did not stop or start working backwards. Life goes on.

We continue our walk through life, one step at a time, always forwards, never resting and not one step back.

Such is the essential human condition.

The Camp of Saints

Repost from the old site.

A very nice, but somewhat dated (though the situation has probably only gotten worse), review of The Camp of Saints, one of the most hated books ever written. The link is on the execrable Free Republic, and the author of the review is a libertarian fool. Looks like Jean Raspail, the author of the book, was some kind of rightwing nut too.

They both blame “socialism” for causing such horrible living conditions, along with starvation and mass and early death and disease, that afflict the Third World. This is truly bizarre. Even autarkic Albania nearly doubled life expectancy from 1946 to 1980, though it was not very successful in other ways.

Almost all of the true Third World nightmare states are operating under some kind of capitalism, usually a particularly ferocious.

That socialism is good for life can been seen in the figures of Sri Lanka and India. Because India lacks Sri Lanka’s infant mortality figures, India suffers about 2.7 million dead babies every year. Those are some real numbers for you Black Book of Communism clowns to chew on. Sri Lanka’s great figures can be attributed exclusively to a mature socialist system there (Sri Lanka is a member of the Socialist International).

Everywhere we look we find the same thing, with some aberrations such as North Korea. One thing Communists in general did and do a great job of, other than a few disruptive periods, was putting enough food in everyone’s stomach. This is also something that capitalists everywhere and at all times have done poorly, ranging from deficient to just plain disastrous.

Almost every Communist country ate vastly better after Communism than before. Cuba currently has the lowest malnutrition rate in Latin America, and the UN says they have beaten it altogether. Even Costa Rica has 7% malnutrition – so much for Latin American social democracy. That Communism or socialism “causes mass starvation everywhere it has been tried” is surely one of the vicious and stupid of the anti-Communists’ lies.

Anyway, ignoring the libertarian delusional thinking, the review is a good one, and the Spaniard author notes that it is taking place as we speak, with boats patrolling the shores off the coast of Europe for flotillas pouring out of West Africa towards Europe. Boatloads of Kurds landed on the Riviera and then poured through the streets of Marseilles a while back. Those are scenes right out of the book.

The book has been dismissed as racist claptrap, but that is not entirely true. Raspail was non-racist enough to suggest that Western civilization was a cultural concept and not a racial one. I currently live in Greater Tijuana, now extending 500 miles north of Mexico into California. Only an Hispanic or the most deluded Leftist would see this transformation of a White working class town into just another Mexican city as positive.

I have nothing against US expats, but I never intended to become one. Instead the foreign country came to me, and nobody asked me to vote on it either – instead, it just got shoved down my throat and I was told to lick my lips and say thanks. The US-Mexico border in some important ways no longer really much exists.

Raspail conflates immigration with illegal immigration, the same way the Leftist illegal immigrant lovers do. Legal immigration to the US, other than refugees, is hardly a problem. We vet them very carefully, and few get into trouble. We need to limit it for environmental reasons, but other than that, the real massive damage is being done by illegal immigrants and increasingly their offspring.

Here in California, once a city goes over 60% Hispanic, it is pretty much wrecked in the eyes of any sensible non-Hispanic. We are even starting to see some guilt-riddled Hispanic Flight, with more well-to-do and self-preserving Hispanics fleeing Hispanic-destroyed towns for Whiter suburbs.

Over 60% Hispanic and a city starts getting dirty, trashy, run-down and falling apart. Crime explodes, especially petty theft, but really all types. Gangs are everywhere and so is graffiti. School failure and dropout rates go through the roof. It’s a chaotic and somewhat dangerous mess, but I guess maybe illegals like it that way, because they are just reproducing the Mexico they fled.

This unfortunately titled Usenet post sums it up quite well. What the policeman describes is reality that any honest Californian understands oh so well. He’s not hallucinating. This is basically par for the course in this state.

Particularly poignant was the destruction of the wages and lifestyle of good honest working class Americans, a devastation outrageously championed to the hilt by the entire US Left. It’s hard to imagine a position that is more hostile to working class Americans, but the Left has taken it up.

I don’t necessarily agree with the rightwing “illegals only come here for the welfare” crap in the post but the portrayal of a decent American neighborhood destroyed by Mexican illegals is gut-wrenching.

Mostly this is associated with the illegals and their nightmarish and oversized broods of children, who are growing up as an Underclass that rivals the Black one but is not nearly so pathological.

Hispanics, like Blacks, are splitting into two races. Blacks have already split and Hispanics will be next. There is an assimilated Black group that can be describes as relatively “non-Ghetto”. There is another group with a “Ghetto” mindset to this extent or that that extends tentacles to varying degrees down into the clusterfuck called the Black Underclass.

The Blacks that have left ghetto behind are increasingly disgusted with their ghetto brethren, and are for all intents and purposes just leaving them to twist in the breeze. I don’t blame them.

The same thing is starting to occur with Hispanics. In my town, there is a group of Hispanics that has grown up (usually) speaking Spanish and English and is comfortable in both languages. They tend to be lighter and to make more money, but that’s not always the case. They are just another group of Americans pretty much like the rest of us, and they are no cause for concern at all in most ways.

There is another group that, as noted above, resembles a much better behaved Black Underclass in too many ways. I figure these groups are going to split more and more in the future. Class generally trumps race any day of the week with anyone.

The illegals have just transplanted the poor and peasant societies of Mexico to America. Their kids have largely become the new Underclass described above. This group tend to be darker and to make less money, but once again, no hard rules.

When the book burners scream, rational people want to know why.

By the way, I agree with some of the commenters after the piece on the need to read the book critically, to say the least.

The reviewer also offers some interesting points on a uniquely Iberian point of view, especially in terms of defending Western civilization in Europe from various unwashed or barbarian hordes, and their disgust at the Northern Europeans for wimping out on defending the continent. They also lived under Islam for way too long, remember it well, and are not going back without a fight.

Contrast to the Continental Left that seems to think new majority-Muslim states in Europe will be glorious explosions of progressive expression.

Iberians and non-Iberians have some conflict, but a little conflict adds luscious spice to life, and those who refuse to act aggressively in defending their interests get bulldozed.

Rousseau Versus Hobbes

Ah, tribal life. Which will it be now? Noble savages or short, nasty and brutish?

And it’s Leviathan for the win! The notion of the noble savage in so many ways is the most absurd of civilized man’s conceits. The truth? We are better. Civilization evolves. History moves forwards, not backwards, and it never ends. There is no need to bow down at the feet of our lessers and abase ourselves at the spectre of primitive atavism. The Hell of our slums and inner cities and wars does not in any way imply the end of the world. Instead, pitifully, this is instead the natural state of man!

In terms of history, civilized man instead is an aberration, a freak. Man, at his essence, is little more than a beast and the Social Darwinists are at least correct that historically, life has been little more than the law of the jungle. But the Social Darwinists are wrong when they say that our bestial nature is permanent. Humans can evolve, and in the past 200 years a new man, Homo Civlizationus, has arrived. May he never die out! May he always move forward, walking into the light! May he never take one step back ever again!

Tribal man as beast. Read it and weep. Long, at 51 pages, but very much worth at least a skim. Don’t read it while you’re eating!

Poverty Is No Excuse for India’s Degradation

Truth writes:

Swedish Shit: Are you a toilet shitter supremacist and thus hate Indians because lots of Indians are not wealthy enough to afford a toilet.

Truth: It is more like people are disgusted by your Hindu culture because it doesn’t give a damn that most Hindu women have to shit out in the open. There is something seriously wrong with you people and until you clean up your shitty ways you will be treated like shit.

One of India’s most popular tourist spots, completely covered in human turds, every inch of the ground. Watch where you step!

This crying poverty to explain India’s problems is not going to work. I have done my research. Moldova has the exact same per capita income as India does. But 100% of the population of Moldova has toilets! 100%! Now there are some problems with Moldova as most of these toilets are pit toilets and there are problems with pit toilets, but even a pit toilet is much better than shitting on the ground.

The truth is that Hindu India is simply the cruelest country on Earth. If Moldova, with the same wealth as India, can afford toilets for everyone, then so can India. Indians simply do not care. Those people without toilets are low caste scums who screwed up in a previous life and now deserve to have a horrible life due to their sins of the past. Actually in Hinduism it is a crime to try to help them!

More Indians have cellphones than have toilets. So that shows you that Indians would rather have a cellphone than a toilet. This is what they value.

A toilet should not be something that someone has to afford. Toilets and sewage systems and whatnot should be provided by the state. Moldova is full of toilets and pit toilets that were mainly built by the Communist state.

I also looked at the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian territories are just as poor as India and 50% more overcrowded (in case people want to use some overcrowding theory of India’s problems). 100% of the population of the territories has access to toilets and sewage systems of some sort. There have been some problems in Gaza lately with Israel screwing up the sewage system with bombings and electricity cuts, but that is not the fault of the Gazans.

So really there is no excuse for the fact that 60% of Indians have to shit on the ground. There is no reason why they should have to do that. 600 million Indians shit on the ground every day because the people of India, especially the upper castes and classes, simply do not care about their predicament, and furthermore, the richer people do not want to pay one single nickel towards providing toilets or sewage systems for their fellow citizens.

This is really the logical outcome of the most viciously Social Darwinist society on Earth. The Republican, conservative, libertarian, radically antisocialist mindset logically results in something looking a lot like India. Every man for himself means you end of with 60% of your population shitting on the ground. If you want to see Ayn Randism in action, go to India.